[Mediawiki-l] (fyi) Wikipedia != Authoritative?

[Moonlight Embrace]

This bothers me a bit. First, the types of "errors" are not described at
all. Does he really expect misspellings to be corrected quickly? Secondly,
if he posted patent nonsense into Wikipedia, wouldn't you expect, at least
fairly, a little while to go before it was noticed? After all Wikipedia is
over 300,000 articles big. And he considers a test that lasted five days to
be authorative? His method for testing is more opinion than science, and if
science, at best junk science.

-ME

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From: Sterling D. Allan <sterlingda at pureenergysystems.com>
To: MediaWiki egroup <mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 8:31 PM
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] (fyi) Wikipedia != Authoritative?


> This is one of the reasons that at PES Network we aim to have a peer
review
> article (not editable by community) for each of the major wiki articles.
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/05/1339219
>
> Wikipedia != Authoritative?
>
> Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 05, @08:02AM
> from the well-duh-people dept.
> Frozen North writes "Recently, this article in the Syracuse Post-Standard
> caused a stir by dismissing Wikipedia as an authoritative source, and even
> suggesting that it was a little deceptive by looking too much like a
"real"
> encyclopedia. Techdirt suggested an experiment: insert bogus information
> into Wikipedia, and see how long it takes for the mistake to be removed.
> Well, I did that experiment, and the results weren't good: five errors
> inserted over five days, all of which lasted until I removed them myself
at
> the end of the experiment."
>
>
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